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“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (Faulkner 29).
Miss Emily did represent a tradition towards the old South and their ways in the eyes of the town. Miss Emily is referred...

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In the short story “A Rose for Emily” there is a unique type of narration used to show the events that take place in Miss Emily’s lifetime. Throughout the story the narrator bases their narration on a “we” perspective as though speaking for all of the townspeople. This is necessary in order to get the same feeling that you get throughout the story with all of the facts provided. By using the perspective of all the townspeople, the narrator creates a feeling where the reader knows what everyone in the town is thinking of Miss Emily and how they depict everything that is happening in her life. All of the town gossip and such is presented through the narration.
Right from the start of the story the narration gives us a sense of how the townspeople think of Miss Emily. The setting is Emily’s funeral with the entire town in attendance “the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”. (Faulkner 128) The story then goes back to the beginning starting with the death of Emily’s father. When Miss Emily’s father dies the narrator says, “At least they could pity Miss Emily.” (Faulkner 130). The people thought that Miss Emily was living such a perfect life that this had finally “humanized” her. After the death of Emily’s father she became more of a source of entertainment among the town. When people...

..._________________________________________________ Date: ________________________ Period: _______________
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
Vocabulary:
1. remit – pardon
2. mote – speck
3. gilt – gold-edged
4. pallid – pale
5. hue – color/shade
6. temerity – courage
7. teeming – swarming
8. diffident – shy
9. deprecation – derogatory (belittle)
10. tableau – scene
11. cabal – secret intrigue
12. impervious – not able to pass through
13. acrid – bitter
14. thwart – to keep from happening; to stand in the way
15. august – magnificent; inspiring awe
16. cuckold – husband of an adulterous wife
Characters: Identify & describe each of the following characters.
1. Emily Grierson
2. Colonel Sartoris
3. Tobe
4. Judge Stevens
5. Homer Barron
Answer the following questions as you read the short story:
6. What is the point of view of the story?
7. What does the title of the story suggest about the townspeople’s feelings toward Miss Emily? Why do they feel this way about her? (Or: What does she represent to them?) Is there anything ironic about their feelings?
8. Describe and discuss the symbolism of Miss Emily’s house.
9. What is the role of “the smell” incident in the story. What other problems has Miss Emily caused the local authorities?
10. How do the townspeople know what they know about...

...﻿Contrast of Emily’s Refusal or Inability to Change
Miss Emily Grierson, the main character in the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was raised sheltered and over-protected from society by her father. Miss Emily wasn’t allowed to get close to anyone including her own family because of a falling out over her late Aunt Wyatt’s estate. When Miss Emily’s father died she could not accept it. The town discovered Miss Emily had kept her father's dead body at the dinner table for three days after his death. She told them that her father was not dead (Faulkner 32). Miss Emily unconsciously began associating change with loss after the death of her father. An example of Emily's refusal to change would be her old fashioned ways.
After the death of Miss Emily’s father, the townspeople rarely saw Miss Emily leave her home. The first time we hear of her appearance is when the narrator describes her as a small, fat woman in black (Faulkner 30). Miss Emily's second appearance is discussed when the narrator states, When we saw her again her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl (Faulkner 32). Miss Emily tries to control change in every aspect of her life, but the one thing she cannot change is her appearance. Another reality Miss Emily is avoiding to...

...said that actions and thoughts follow energy. To elaborate, what one does or thinks depends highly on the attitude the person is experiencing at the moment. In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, the author presents the story through narration in a third person point of view. The narrator is the voice of the people who live in Jefferson, and tells the story in a series of memories in no chronological order. The author successfully gives the reader a general sense of how the people of Jefferson felt towards Emily and those closest to her throughout her life. In actions and thoughts shown through flashbacks, the author describes the attitudechanges in Jefferson as time passes by and a newer generation arises.
Throughout the story, the narrator describes changes in attitude towards Emily. It is evident that as time passes, the people of Jefferson become assertive towards her. The narrator describes the house that Emily’s father left her as “…big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies… set on what had once been our most select street” (Faulkner). Based on the narrator’s description of the house,
Emily was noticed as a person of high quality. Having a large house with the great architecture on the most prestige street at the time, gives the reader the notion that the...

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Because of this development is had made me think about how little we knew before and how much we know now. Today it is possible to measure and gain knowledge about almost anything. Such as weather, water stream, temperature changes, rainfall and much more. It is possible to se changes that occur on the planet. This makes me think and be concerned about what does really happen on planet earth? This question and thoughts that have been brought up makes me interested to learn and get a bigger perspective about “changing climate”.
Questions regarding our climate have in the past years been up for discussion on several channels. It is...

...Edgar Delalamon
A ROSE FOR EMILY
BY WILLIAM FAULKNER The narrator describes what happens after Emily dies. Emily’s body is laid out in the parlor, and the women, town elders, and two cousins attend the service.
The narrator describes the fear that some of the townspeople have that Emily will use the poison to kill herself.
The narrator recalls the time of Emily Grierson’s death and how the entire town attended her funeral in her home, which no stranger had entered for more than ten years.
The narrator describes a time thirty years earlier when Emily resists another official inquiry on behalf of the town leaders, when the townspeople detect a powerful odor emanating from her property.
The narrator describes a long illness that Emily suffers after this incident.
After some time has passed, the door to a sealed upstairs room that had not been opened in forty years is broken down by the townspeople. The room is frozen in time, with the items for an upcoming wedding and a man’s suit laid out. Homer Barron’s body is stretched on the bed as well, in an advanced state of decay. The onlookers then notice the indentation of a head in the pillow beside Homer’s body and a long strand of Emily’s gray hair on the pillow.
The summer after her father’s death, the town contracts workers to pave the sidewalks, and a construction company, under the direction of northerner Homer Barron,...

...Robert Works
Date: 2/13/15
Teacher: Mrs. Sara Smith
Class: English Comp II
A Readers Interruption of “A Rose for Emily”
In the short story, “A Rose for Emily” we are presented with a unique narration method by William Faulkner. old
lady who is rejected by society. We learn about the main character Miss. Emily through a collective point of view from
many sources. Throughout the story the each narrator only has a partial point of view which tends to lead the reader into
feeling that the entire story is narrated by various people in town. The prime example showing a collaborated narration is
seen in the use of such words as “we”, “our”, and “they” when describing a feeling associated with Miss. Emily. During the
entire story we are narrated by someone whether it be a single man or woman, but they are never shown as having a
main character part nor do they have any direct impact on the story that is being told about Miss. Emily and her life.
William Faulkner sets the mood that our main character is a part of the town, yet uses a collective narration to allow the
reader to better see the isolation and separation that Miss. Emily has not only from the townspeople, refusal to change
with the times, but from reality itself.
One of the other tools that William Faulkner used to show multiple narration point of views was by using...